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Since its founding in Seattle in 1995, NWFF has evolved from a filmmaker’s collective into a robust multimedia hub and community space.

🎞️ NOTHING IS REAL, BUT EVERYTHING MATTERS 🎞️This June, Northwest Film Forum is proud to present four films that explore...
05/29/2026

🎞️ NOTHING IS REAL, BUT EVERYTHING MATTERS 🎞️

This June, Northwest Film Forum is proud to present four films that explore the almost-always blurry boundary between fantasy, desire, and reality when it comes to our deepest (and sometimes darkest) fantasies. Together, these four films present different approaches to representing q***r s*xuality on film in all its libidinal possibilities. From modern found-footage compilations of vintage gay "all male" films, to depersonalized docs on kinky s*x, this program breaks down the walls between what we want and what we can have in hopes of creating a world of pure, unfiltered pleasure.

More info at bit.ly/r2rnw

JUNE 3-7: TAKE ONE - THEATRICAL CUT (1977, dir. Wakefield Poole)
JUNE 11-14: KAMIKAZE HEARTS (1986, dir. Juliet Bashore)
JUNE 20-24: ASK ANY BUDDY (2019, dir. Elizabeth Purchell)
JUNE 24: BOTTOM (2012, dir. Todd Verow)

📹 FILM ME SO I HAVE A PICTURE 📹THIS WEEKEND ONLY -- Kamal Aljafari's WITH HASAN IN GAZA comes to Northwest Film Forum fo...
05/28/2026

📹 FILM ME SO I HAVE A PICTURE 📹

THIS WEEKEND ONLY -- Kamal Aljafari's WITH HASAN IN GAZA comes to Northwest Film Forum for a limited time only. Using home videos as a source of personal archaeology and a guide to reuniting with a former prison-mate, this film is a potent reminder of the power of home video, especially when your home is constantly under threat.

Tickets are on sale now! More info at https://bit.ly/whignw

Sat May 30: 4.30pm PDT, 7.30pm PDT
Sun May 31: 4.30pm PDT, 7.30pm PDT

SYNOPSIS:
Three MiniDV tapes of life in Gaza from 2001 were recently rediscovered. What started as a search for a former prison mate from 1989, led to an unexpected road trip from the north to the south of Gaza with Hasan, a local guide whose fate remains unknown.

A cinematic reflection on memory, loss and the passage of time, capturing a Gaza of the past and lives that may never be found again.

THIS FRIDAY NIGHT! The Disabled List returns to Northwest Film Forum for another evening of some of the best stand-up co...
05/27/2026

THIS FRIDAY NIGHT! The Disabled List returns to Northwest Film Forum for another evening of some of the best stand-up comedy in Seattle! Produced and hosted by local comedians Dan Hurwitz and Kayla Brown, The Disabled List s a collective of disabled comedians that has been performing in and around Seattle since 2018. In 2021, we produced a short film, the award-eligible This Is Spinal Injury, that debuted at Northwest Film Forum’s Local Sightings Film Festival and was screened at several other film festivals throughout the state.
This live comedy show features Brown, Hurwitz, and an ever-changing cast of fellow local comedians!

This month's lineup includes Michael Bellevue, Marie Elizabeth, Rachel Shaw, and DK Echo-Hawk!

Tickets are on sale now! More info at https://nwfilmforum.org/events/disabled-list-presents-live-comedy-may-2026/

🔵 YOU DON'T KNOW THE FIRST THING ABOUT ME 🔵BLUE FILM, the daring and provocative debut feature from Elliot Tuttle, comes...
05/24/2026

🔵 YOU DON'T KNOW THE FIRST THING ABOUT ME 🔵

BLUE FILM, the daring and provocative debut feature from Elliot Tuttle, comes to Northwest Film Forum next week for TWO NIGHTS ONLY! Allegedly too controversial for film festivals, BLUE FILM is a delicate tightrope walk of a film that confronts viewers with what it means to be truly empathetic and open about the darkest parts of ourselves.

You all already sold out Thursday night, but Wednesday has plenty of tickets left. More info at https://bit.ly/bluefnw

Wed May 27: 7.30pm PDT
Thu May 28: 7.30pm PDT

SYNOPSIS:
When camboy Aaron Eagle visits a client in exchange for $50,000, he discovers a masked man with a camera and a series of increasingly probing questions. But when the man reveals a disturbing connection to Aaron’s past, the two drop their personas and gradually reveal their true desires in a seductive thriller being called “one of the most daring American films of recent vintage.”

✈️ IS IT LIKE A HOBBY PROJECT? ✈️Next Wednesday FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY, catch the newest feature from Travis Wood and Alex M...
05/22/2026

✈️ IS IT LIKE A HOBBY PROJECT? ✈️

Next Wednesday FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY, catch the newest feature from Travis Wood and Alex Mallis -- THE TRAVEL COMPANION. This film is truly a cringe comedy for filmmakers both aspiring and well-seasoned, asking questions about the lengths we go to complete our passion projects and the risks we take with them, our relationships, and our own sanity.

Tickets are on sale now! More info at https://bit.ly/travcomp

Wed May 27: 7.00pm PDT

SYNOPSIS:
Simon, a struggling documentary filmmaker, enjoys free flights courtesy of his best friend and roommate, Bruce, who works for an airline. However, when Beatrice, a more successful filmmaker, enters the picture and starts dating Bruce, Simon risks flying too close to the sun.

🐬 I BECAME NON-HUMAN 🐬John Lilly is perhaps one of the strangest people to ever have any major impact on American popula...
05/18/2026

🐬 I BECAME NON-HUMAN 🐬

John Lilly is perhaps one of the strangest people to ever have any major impact on American popular culture, and this weekend Northwest Film Forum presents a double feature of two films that have his fingerprints all over them. John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office is the new documentary from Michael Almereyda & Courtney Stephens exploring Lilly’s work and lasting impact, and Altered States takes Lilly’s work and concepts and dramatizes them in a way that only someone like Ken Russell with a Hollywood budget could pull off.

Expand your consciousness for ONE WEEKEND ONLY! And as a bonus, we will have the video game Ecco The Dolphin, one of the most surreal gaming experiences created, available to play in the lobby!

bit.ly/lillynw

ALTERED STATES:
Fri May 22: 7.00pm PDT
Sat May 23: 4.30pm PDT, 7.00pm PDT
Sun May 24: 4.30pm PDT, 7.00pm PDT

JOHN LILLY AND THE EARTH COINCIDENCE CONTROL OFFICE:
Fri May 22: 7.30pm PDT
Sat May 23: 4.00pm PDT, 7.30pm PDT
Sun May 24: 4.00pm PDT, 7.30pm PDT

Tomorrow evening, join Northwest Film Forum and The Seattle Film Critics Society in a celebration celebrating the short ...
05/14/2026

Tomorrow evening, join Northwest Film Forum and The Seattle Film Critics Society in a celebration celebrating the short films of Sky Hopinka, recipient of SFCS’s 2025 John Hartl Pacific Northwest Spotlight Award, presented annually to honor the outstanding work of a person with local ties to the region.

Tickets are on sale now! More info at https://nwfilmforum.org/films/an-evening-with-sky-hopinka/

Fri May 15: 6.30pm PDT

🌸 A TRUE ARTIST IS SOMEONE WHO IS CLOSE TO THE PEOPLE 🌸Starting tonight for TWO NIGHTS ONLY catch Abbas Kiarostami's CLO...
05/13/2026

🌸 A TRUE ARTIST IS SOMEONE WHO IS CLOSE TO THE PEOPLE 🌸

Starting tonight for TWO NIGHTS ONLY catch Abbas Kiarostami's CLOSE-UP at Northwest Film Forum. One of the best interrogations of reality-making in filmmaking (documentary or otherwise), CLOSE-UP remains an essential and thrilling work on what makes cinema and its forms so enticing.

Tickets are on sale now! More info at https://bit.ly/closeupnw

Wed May 13: 7.00pm PDT
Thu May 14: 7.00pm PDT

SYNOPSIS:
Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, Close-up has resonated with viewers around the world.

✍️ IT'S RATHER ODD YOU'RE ALONE ✍️Sho Miyake's TWO SEASONS, TWO STRANGERS, the first of the acclaimed director's films t...
05/11/2026

✍️ IT'S RATHER ODD YOU'RE ALONE ✍️

Sho Miyake's TWO SEASONS, TWO STRANGERS, the first of the acclaimed director's films to be distributed in the United States, comes to Northwest Film Forum this week! A subdued and profound meditation on the process of making art, TWO SEASONS, TWO STRANGERS is a reminder of the importance of human connection and stories in a time when it can be easy to be lost in sadness. For fans of Hong Sang-soo and Ryusuke Hamaguchi!

Tickets are on sale now! More info at https://bit.ly/tstsnw

Wed May 13: 7.30pm PDT
Thu May 14: 7.30pm PDT
Sat May 16: 5.00pm PDT, 7.00pm PDT
Sun May 17: 5.00pm PDT, 7.00pm PDT

SYNOPSIS:
Based on two mangas by Yoshiharu Tsuge, who rose to underground celebrity thanks to his surrealist tales published in the pages of the bastion of Japanese avant-garde cartooning, Garo, Miyake’s bifurcated live-action feature observes (and draws parallels and contrasts from) a summertime meet-cute between Nagisa and Natsuo (Yuumi Kawai and Mansaku Takada) and a snowbound winter encounter between screenwriter Li and innkeeper Benzo (Shim Eun-kyung and Shinichi Tsutsumi). Two Seasons, Two Strangers is at one and the same time as simple as its straightforward title suggests and immensely, exhilaratingly complex.

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